True crime stories & great mysteries
Mystery & True Crime Stories is a website about the most puzzling mysteries of the past, as well as controversial theories. Here you'll find the most puzzling crime mysteries, the greatest mysteries of history, some of the interesting controversial theories and unexplained phenomena. Of course, some of them might be hoaxes, some of them might have a trivial explanation, but it is always a fun to stumble upon a puzzle or mystery that still needs to be solved.
True crime stories
Lake Bodom murders
On June 5th, 1960, four Finnish teenagers were attacked by an unknown assailant as they were camping next to Lake Bodom in southern Finland. The attack left three of the teenagers dead...
Murder of JonBenet Ramsey
JonBenet Ramsey, a lovely girl that at a very young age, started to take part in beauty pageants. When she was six, she found murdered in the basement of her family home, just a few...
Death of Isidor Fink
Isidor Fink was one of the many immigrants from Poland that came to America at the beginning of the 20th century, searching for a better life. His dreams, just like many others, were never fulfilled...
Great mysteries
Isdal Woman
On 29 November 1970, a man and his two daughters were hiking near Bergen in south-west Norway. The area was known as Isdalen (Ice Valley) or sometimes as Death Valley, due to the history...
Glenn Miller disappearance
Glenn Miller was one of the most recognizable band leaders in the swing era, his music is still admired today. At the peak of his career, he decided to join the World War 2 effort and...
Roanoke colony
The Roanoke colony was one of the first British settlements in the North America. When the ships returned in 1590, the colony was deserted, with the word "Croatoan" carved in the post...
The Somerton Man
In 1948, a corpse of an unidentified man was found on Somerton beach in Adelaide, Australia. The contents of the hidden pocket are puzzling the investigators to this day.
Controversial theories
UFO sightings
When we talk about UFO, we often forget that UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, which not necessarily means that those objects have to be made by humans or aliens - they just...
Smolensk air crash
During a trip to annual ceremonies marking the anniversary of the Katyn Massacre (when during the World War II over 20,000 Polish officers, previously kept captive, were killed by NKVD...
9/11 attacks
Two planes full of passengers hit the twin towers of World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, starting one of the most mysterious conspiracy theories in history. At 8:46 AM, five...
JFK assassination
American president John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot while visiting Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. The official version is that he was shot by a single, obviously insane, shooter...
Unexplained phenomena
Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle is a region in the Northern Atlantic between the eastern coast of the United States and the Bermuda Islands, where some unexplained events took place since the 15th century...
Beast of Gevaudan
Wolf-like creature (or creatures) that terrorized the French province of Gevaudan in the 18th century. Over 100 people were killed by the Beast of Gevaudan, but still, we have no idea...
Amityville horror house
An average house at the end of the road in Amityville proved to be a crime scene, where the whole DeFeo family was killed. Years later, the new inhabitants of the house had to ask for...
UFO sightings
When we talk about UFO, we often forget that UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, which not necessarily means that those objects have to be made by humans or aliens - they just...
Crime and mystery movies
Big Bad Wolves 2013
Police detective is convinced that his main suspect is guilty of murdering young girls, but there is no way to prove it. He decides to take justice in his hands.
Golden Wheel 1971
Investigation in the case of young boy’s death leads the police from one mystery to another.
Chernobyl Diaries 2012
Foreign tourists take a trip into the exclusion zone around Chernobyl nuclear power plant. While they visit the abandoned town of Pripyat they find they are not alone there.
Death Cruise 1974
Three couples separately join the passengers aboard a cruise ship and soon realize they have something in common. One of those things is that someone is trying to kill them.